I think this birther mess got started when an illiterate misread Keynesian as “Kenyan”.

— Henry Sigall
— Twitter

…and he really was born in Hawaii.

— Rachel Maddow
— MSNBC

The Republican Party I think owns the big issues of the day. We ought to be bold. We ought to be confident. If we spent as much time talking about solutions in the future as we did the president’s birth certificate, for heaven sake, we probably would have won the darn election.

People spoke. Move on, get on with it. I want to do other things and not to be ugly.

— Barbara Bush

A little bit of knowledge can sometimes be worse than none at all. Plaintiff’s pro se filings demonstrate some exposure to the legal process. But they also demonstrate a fundamental failure to appreciate that the administration of justice promotes fairness, not abuse.

There will come a time that Dr. Orly will find herself in a courtroom. She will look over at the defense table, and see a rhesus monkey in a suit, sitting next to an empty chair.

Confused, she will look up at the judge, and see a plate of pancakes instead.

That’s when she’ll wake up screaming.

–Patrick McKinnion
–BadFiction

After Hawaii has thrice verified the information contained in the White House .pdf as matching the information on the original birth record, attempting to prosecute someone for “forgery” would be a bit like trying to prosecute someone accused of murder after the supposed victim has shown up alive.

Republicans have an institutional bond with conspiracy theory. It is so deeply ingrained in the party that publicly supporting a conspiracy theory is not only not stigmatizing for a candidate, but may even, in some cases, be necessary to get as many Republican votes as possible.

–Scott Sommers

Words are but the shadows of actions.

–Democritus

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